Agnes became a sensation on TikTok after joining the platform in 2019, quickly gathering a fanbase of over 2.4 million followers through her charming and playful videos.

Her followers adored her for her passion for knitting and Minecraft, her mischievous humor, and a distinctive throaty cough that affectionately earned her the nickname “the coughing lady.”

In October, her grandson, Culsans, shared that Agnes had been absent from creating new content due to hospitalization caused by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Her grandson Culsans revealed in October that she had not been appearing in any new videos because she had been hospitalized as a result of her lung condition Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Culsans shared two days later that she would be receiving ‘heavy treatment’ for an ‘anomaly in her lungs’ after suffering a ‘major stroke.’

This Tuesday, he wrote: ‘it is with an incredible amount of pain that tonight i must announce that agnes, our epic gamer grandma, passed away peacefully at 9:20pm on sunday 21st december 2025, holding the hand of her daughter pauline. she left this world the way she lived in it: surrounded by love.’

TikTok star Epic Gamer Grandma, whose real name was Agnes, died on Sunday at the age of 78, her family has confirmed

He continued: ‘we watched the strongest woman we know slowly lose her words, and now that she’s gone we are drowning in all the things we never got to say back.’ 

Culsans shared that the family were at once ‘completely heartbroken’ and ‘incredibly proud’ of ‘the woman she was long before anyone knew her online.

He hailed Agnes as ‘the mum and grandma who held our family together,’ while also praising her for ‘the way she spent her later years proving that life does not end at a certain age, it only changes shape.’

Agnes’ grandson noted that ‘for most of her life, agnes was not an “influencer.” she was a daughter, a sister, a mum, a grandma, a neighbour, a friend.’